Keynote Speakers
The 2012 TEMC Local Organising committee are delighted to announce the following keynote speakers have been confirmed. Other keynote speakers will be listed as they are confirmed.
Khoa Do
Khoa Do is a film director, screenwriter and teacher who has had extensive experience working with the most disadvantaged in our community, inspiring them and guiding them to incredible success. Khoa’s belief is that everyone on a team, no matter what their background or experience, is extraordinarily gifted, and our goal is to help others to realise their true potential.
In the past ten years, Khoa has specialised in working with marginalised communities, including at-risk and homeless youths, former convicted prisoners and refugees of many nationalities. In 2002, a group of young kids in Cabramatta, South Western Sydney, had come to a welfare centre seeking help. One was homeless, sleeping in refuges and in McDonald’s play areas, another was a shy Aboriginal young man who never spoke a single word, another a long-term drug addict, and another was an accused criminal currently on parole. None had ever finished high school.
Two years later, they were all AFI Award nominees, walking the red carpet opposite Geoffrey Rush, Naomi Watts and Cate Blanchett. Hear their extraordinary story, and how Khoa harnessed their talents and abilities to make an internationally acclaimed film, which became a true lesson in teamwork, motivation and inspiration.
Khoa’s own amazing story – arriving in Australia as a refugee on a tiny fishing boat crammed full of people to becoming the 2005 Young Australian of the Year is a journey of courage, resilience and hope amidst incredible opposition. Growing up in the western suburbs of Sydney, Khoa recalls going to school with sticky-taped shoes and coming home to find out that their electricity had been cut off because the family couldn’t afford to pay the bills.
In 2004, he was the youngest film director in Australian history to be nominated for an AFI Award for Best Director. Over the years, he has received many awards for his work in the community and with young people – Young Vietnamese Australian of the Year Award 2000, Young Citizen of the Year Award 2001 and the Young Australian of the Year Award 2005.
Dr. Bob Bontrager
Bob Bontrager is Senior Director of Consulting and Strategic Enrollment Management Initiatives for the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO). He has 25 years of experience in enrollment management at all types of institutions, with particular expertise in strategic planning, recruitment, marketing, financial aid, institutional budget strategies, and transfer programs. Most recently as Assistant Provost for Enrollment Management at Oregon State University, Bob’s leadership resulted in a 40% increase in enrollment, including increases in the academic and diversity profile of the student body.
Dr. Bontrager has contributed to the ongoing evolution of the strategic enrollment management profession in the U.S. and abroad as a frequent conference speaker, workshop presenter, consultant, and contributor to the SEM literature. He recently edited two books, SEM and Institutional Success: Integrating Enrollment, Finance and Student Access and Applying SEM at the Community College. His work has extended to a number of international locations, including Australia, Canada, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Syria, and the United Arab Emirates.
Prior to his work at Oregon State, Bontrager served as Vice President for Enrollment Management at Eastern Mennonite University in Virginia and was Assistant Registrar at Arizona State University. He earned his Master of Counseling degree and Ed.D. in Educational Leadership & Policy Studies at Arizona State University. He earned his bachelor’s degree at Goshen College, Goshen, Indiana.
Dorte Kristoffersen
Dorte Kristoffersen has held executive and senior positions in educational quality assurance agencies around the world since 1992. Prior to her appointment as a Commissioner she was Vice-President for Policy and Research with the Accrediting Commission of Community and Junior Colleges under the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (ACCJC, WASC) in the United States. Prior to that appointment she was the Deputy Executive Director of the Hong Kong Council for Accreditation of Academic and Vocational Qualifications (HKCAAVQ).
From 2004 to 2007 Dorte was an Audit Director with the Australian Universities Quality Agency (AUQA). She came to AUQA from a position as Deputy Director and Director of Development at the Danish Evaluation Institute (EVA).
Dorte has been a member of several European evaluation agency boards and institutional review panels, and she has chaired several reviews of quality assurance agencies. She has participated in numerous European projects related to the Bologna Process and has been active in international quality assurance networks, including being an elected board member of the International Network for Quality Assurance Agencies in Higher Education (INQAAHE) and the Asia-Pacific Quality Network (APQN).
Dorte holds a Master of Business Administration, Intercultural Communication and Languages from Copenhagen Business School, and is a certified Assessor in the Business Excellence Model.
Annabel Crabb
Annabel Crabb is one of Australia's most popular political commentators. With her unique style of writing and natural wit, Annabel provides distinctive observations and analysis in her reporting on political events of the day.
She has been a journalist for more than 12 years, covering national politics for 10. Before she became a journalist, Annabel completed arts and law degrees at the University of Adelaide but decamped when a legal career threatened to become a reality.
Annabel undertook a cadetship at Adelaide's The Advertiser in 1997, and covered first state and then federal politics for the newspaper, relocating to The Advertiser's Canberra bureau in 1999.
She was hired by The Age in 2000, and worked as House On The Hill columnist and political correspondent before travelling to London in 2003 to work as London correspondent for the Sunday Age and Sun-Herald newspapers.
While she was in London she wrote a book, "Losing It: The Inside Story of the Labor Party in Opposition", published in 2005. The book explored the Australian Labor Party's opposition leaders Kim Beazley, Simon Crean and Mark Latham.
In 2007, she returned to Australia as a senior writer and political columnist for The Sydney Morning Herald. In June this year, Annabel wrote a Quarterly Essay entitled "Stop At Nothing: The Life and Adventures of Malcolm Turnbull", which won a 2009 Walkley Award for best magazine feature writing.
She left Fairfax in November 2009 to join the ABC as chief online political writer.
Annabel has worked extensively in radio and television as a political commentator, and has been a regular on the ABC's Insiders program since its inception in 2001.
Adam Spencer
Adam Spencer began his career in radio by winning the Triple J Raw Comedy championship in 1996. From there, Adam became a casual presenter, and eventually took over the coveted breakfast time slot, hosting from 1999 - 2004. A consummate learner, Adam holds a first class honors degree in Pure Mathematics and has an immense interest in science. These passions lead Adam to hosting the ABC program QUANTUM and FAQ from 1998 to 2001. Adam has been a regular guest on the Channel Ten’s GOOD NEWS WEEK Debate series, ABC's THE GLASSHOUSE and THE FAT. In 2003 Adam hosted HIT & RUN for the Foxtel’s Comedy Channel.
Adam’s other outstanding achievements include being voted “Best Speaker in the World’ at the World University Debating Championships. Prior to this, Adam was captain of the Australian Debating Team for 3 years. He was winner of the National Championships and Winner of the Australian University Championships. Adam was a regular performer at Belvoir Street Theatre’s ‘Theatresports’ and speaks regularly at science and Maths conferences Australia wide.
Adam’s book LITTLE BOOK OF NUMBERS has been published by Penguin and has been translated into many languages around the world.
At the end of 2004 Adam and his co presenter on Triple J Wil Anderson toured the nation with THE LAST TIME TOUR, which sold out in every capital city and celebrated their time on Triple J. Adam has also toured for the last 3 years with Dr Karl Kruszelnicki in the SLEEK GEEK TOUR, which is held during Science Week and is an hilarious one hour show combining ground breaking science with side breaking comedy.
Adam has had extensive experience on various boards and authorities - he continues to serve on the Senate of the University of Sydney, the NSW Premier's Advisory Committee on Greenhouse and Global Warming and the NSW Health Department's Clinical Ethics Review Committee as well as being an ambassador for the Fred Hollows Foundation and helping out with numerous charities.
TEMC 2012 will also feature Invited Speakers. These speakers have been invited to present during a concurrent session.
Hamilton Wilson
Architect & Managing Director, Wilson Architects
Adjunct Professor in the School of Architecture - University of Queensland
B.AppSc., B.Arch. (Hon), FRAIA
Hamilton Wilson is the Managing Director of Wilson Architects and a Fellow of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects. A fourth generation architect, his firm work within the education sector and have, for the past ten years, been fascinated with university libraries and learning environments and their relationships to both technology and the IT savvy student. His interest in the process of interaction of students and information has lead Hamilton into creating design solutions that help meet the students diversity in study behavior. After co-developing the University of Queensland’s initial library re-planning, the opportunity to refine this model with the University Librarian, Janine Schmidt, on more branch libraries has resulted in highly developed library planning strategies.
With the development of the Collaborative Teaching and Learning Centre at University of Queensland under Professor Margaret Gardner, Hamilton further developed an understanding of spaces which directly respond to pedagogy. This particular interest resulted in Hamilton being involved as a key investigator of the Carrick (now ALTC) Grant Leadership Team along with Academic, David Radcliffe (Epistemology Professor of Engineering Education, Purdue University) and Technologist, Derek Powell. The research project involved the design, demonstration and evaluation of distinct and different types of learning environments using a pedagogy, space, technology (PST) framework. Wilson Architects have continued this research with further studies on teaching and learning spaces using this framework from design to documentation to post occupancy evaluation.
Hamilton Wilson graduated with 1st class honors in architecture from the University of Queensland in 1985 and was awarded the AE Brooks Traveling Scholarship in Architecture. From 1987 to 1989 he worked in London as design architect with DEGW, a firm of urban planners, interior designers, space planners and architects. He returned to Wilson Architects in 1989 and was appointed Managing Director in 1995.
